On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: I got a laptop which is some 6-7 years old.
Processor is Intel Pentium M Processor 1600 MHz The laptop has 2G RAM and 40G hard disk. When I tried to install ubuntu 12.04, It can not boot with the OS itself. Showed the following error. This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. Searched on net and found that ubuntu 12.04 is not supporting this processor. I tried with lubuntu, xubuntu and older ubuntu versions upto 11.10 http://askubuntu.com/questions/117744/how-can-i-install-on-a-non-pae-cpu-error-kernel-requires-features-not-present Finally, tried the latest PCLinuxOS 2013 It installed without any issues and running fine with the neat KDE environment. If you need still more light-weight (comes with Openbox), debian based distro, consumes less memory from ram (~30 Mb of Ram memory when everything is up), looks beautiful, got a active community behind it try Crunchbang Linux (http://crunchbang.org). Though it does not comes with some pre-installed tools, automatic short-cuts are provided with the Openbox menu to install LibreOffice and other basic tools. I just loved the script that runs only once initially after installation on reboot (which actually gets you set-up your development environment). If someone is curious, go ahead, give it a try. I am running crunchbang on my 5 year old desktop which has just 356 Mb or Ram with 40 Gb HDD, Intel Pentium IV. So far too good. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
